Reborn as King of South America

Chapter 448 The War Begins
South America is a vast and fertile land, but it is also a land where regimes change rapidly and wars are constant. The fertile land has attracted interference and manipulation from external powerful countries. The corrupt and incompetent governments only know how to fight for power but cannot protect the safety of the people under their feet.

In the original history, the wars and conflicts among South American countries would last for nearly two hundred years. Until the 21st century, the South American countries were still under the control of external powers.

Fertile yet war-torn South America is like a dazzling gem. Its light attracts ambitious peepers but also illuminates the path for those who truly control it.

South of La Plata, a new and vibrant country, has risen rapidly amid the turmoil in South American countries.
From two states in southern Brazil, to controlling seven provinces in northern Argentina, and then to occupying the whole of Argentina and Uruguay.

The South American Han Kingdom is developing rapidly and forcefully to prove to the world who is the real hero who will end the chaos in South America.

On July 1889, 7, the Han government issued a conscription order. All troops that received the order were required to cancel their leave and go out. All regular troops on the front line were to assemble and stand by at their bases, ready to rush to the front battlefield at any time.

On July 7, the four-member Regency Committee reached an agreement with the anti-rebel coalition, and the anti-rebel coalition stopped its attack on the city of Asuncion. While agreeing to allow the anti-rebel coalition to send a troop into the city to assist in defense, the four-member Regency Committee also sent a 16-man troop to cooperate with the anti-rebel coalition to resist the attack of the Brazilian Republic's army.

On July 7, the Asuncion government sent a request for assistance to the Han State, requesting the Han government to send strong troops to support Paraguay's defense war.

On July 7, the Han government proposed a series of additional conditions on the condition of assisting Paraguay in resisting aggression, which were politely rejected by the Paraguayan government.

On July 7, according to a secret agreement with the British, the Brazilian government received the first installment of a low-interest loan of 23 pounds (the total loan amount was 60 million pounds, to be paid in three installments. The Brazilian government initially requested a loan of 150 million pounds, but the British only agreed to pay 300 million pounds).

On July 7, with the newly acquired £25, the Brazilian government mobilized and armed another 60 mixed troops (made up of blacks and whites).

On July 7, according to the needs of the front-line war, the government of the Republic of Brazil divided a mixed force of 28 people into two parts and transferred it to Paraguay. One part, about 2 people, went to the Paraguay River Basin front to defend the newly recovered Mato Grosso do Sul and the southern part of Goiás State, in order to reduce the logistical garrison pressure on the front-line troops of the Republic of Brazil. The other part, about 1.3 people, were sent to Guaira and Iguazu to defend the logistical supply lines of the army of the Republic of Brazil in the Paraná River Basin and prevent attacks from Paraguay or the Han State from the lower reaches of the Paraná River.

On July 1889, 7, the 31th Division of the Paraguayan Army stationed in the southern part of Goiás State was completely wiped out, and the commander of the th Division, Hopkins, was captured alive by the Brazilian Republican Army.

On August 1889, 8, after eliminating the troops of the 4th Division of the Paraguayan Army, the main force of the Paraguayan River Basin Front of the Republic of Brazil left 1.4 people to defend the occupied areas of Mato Grosso do Sul and the southern part of Goiás, and the remaining nearly 6 people continued to move south along the Paraguay River.

On August 1889, 8, Puerto Casado fell. Except for more than 6 soldiers who managed to escape, all the other 600 soldiers stationed in Puerto Casado were captured or killed.

On August 1889, 8, 9 advance troops of the Republic of Brazil marched to Concepción and engaged in a fierce battle with the Paraguayan troops stationed there.

On August 1889, 8, the anti-rebel coalition forces and the four-member regency committee put together a force of nearly 10 people and headed for Concepción, intending to rely on the remaining port fortresses in the area to block the attack of the Brazilian Republic's army.

On August 1889, 8, the Republic of Brazil added 20 soldiers at one time to join the operation to attack the port of Concepción.

On August 8, the defensive fortress of Concepción Port was severely damaged, and the garrisoned Paraguayan troops suffered heavy losses under the superior artillery fire of the Brazilian army.

On August 8, General Silvestre, the commander of the Compaquicion garrison, burned the remaining military supplies and some fortress facilities, and at 26 p.m. that day, he led more than 11 soldiers to evacuate by boat towards Asuncion. At 7000 a.m. on August 8, the advance troops of the Republic of Brazil caught up with the evacuating Paraguayan troops by boat, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides in the port of Antequera.

At 12 noon, most of the ships carrying the Paraguayan evacuation troops were destroyed. The Asuncion defenders in the rear refused the request for support from Silvestre, commander of the rd Division of the Paraguayan Army, for fear of being ambushed when leaving the city.

At 1: p.m., the gunboat that Silvestre was on was hit by a shell from the Brazilian advance force. Silvestre was killed on the spot. The Paraguayan evacuation force lost its commander and fell into chaos in an instant.

At 2:24 p.m., most of the Paraguayan evacuating troops were wiped out by the Brazilian advance troops, with more than 1000 people killed in battle or drowned, more than 3000 surrendered and were captured, and only more than 700 troops managed to escape to the city of Asuncion (after the defeat, many soldiers would leave the battlefield and hide in coastal villages and towns, becoming marauders).

On August 8, the Brazilian army arrived at the small town of Lynchio, north of Asuncion, with great momentum of victory.

In the evening of the same day, the Brazilian army launched an attack on the area near Asuncion. In less than a week, it occupied the outer positions such as the town of Lynchio and Porto Ayes near Asuncion, and the Paraguayan army retreated to the city of Asuncion.

On September 1889, 9, after a week of fierce war, the number of defenders in Asuncion dropped to 6, and the city was at risk of falling.

On September 9, the Paraguayan government urgently contacted the Han side, agreed to all the conditions previously proposed by the Han side, and pleaded with the Han government to send troops to reinforce Asuncion immediately.

At 9 a.m. on September 9, as one of the conditions for the Han State to send troops, the Han army crossed the Paraná River and entered Encarnacion, replacing the Paraguayan Army's 11st Division to take over local defense.

At 9 noon on September 9, the Paraguayan Army's 12st Division evacuated Encarnacion and immediately took a train towards Asuncion.

The Han army crossed the Paraná River and replaced the Paraguayan Army's 1st Division garrisoning Encarnacion, which meant that the Han side officially intervened in the Paraguayan War.

On September 1889, 9, after learning that the Han army had entered southern Paraguay, the front-line troops of the Republic of Brazil intensified their offensive against Asuncion, while urging Chile to fulfill the secret agreement and exert military pressure on the Han side on the Pacific side.

On September 1889, 9, at the request of the Republic of Brazil, the Chilean government sent an additional 12 soldiers to Temuco, Panguip, Los Lagos and other places.

On September 1889, 9, the Han government issued two military orders. One was to order the Haizhou garrison to strengthen its vigilance and be ready to respond to sea and land attacks from Chile at any time.

The second was to order the 7 troops stationed in Luoning County (Formosa) to end their combat readiness training and immediately board the inland fleet's transport ships to Asuncion.

As the army stationed in Luoning County marched towards Asuncion, the Han war machine, which had been dormant for nearly a decade, began to operate again.

(End of this chapter)